I’ve had a headache since yesterday. It feels like caffeine withdrawal, but it’s centered in my sinuses. It aches with an almost audible twinge between my eyes like I’ve been watching too much TV. I have been. Watching New Orleans fill like a bathtub. Watching parking lots fill up with people, hot and thirsty and tired, just exhausted. Watching a doctor’s eyes fill with determination as he reports on the pitiful state of his crippled hospital. Watching a grandmother’s eyes filled with betrayal, gasping, “We’re Americans.” My headache flares every time I fight back tears. My eyes flood and spill over.
